LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson likes to style himself as a buccaneer, waving a cutlass and thumbing his nose at convention as he leads Britain into ...
New measures to tackle the increase in coronavirus cases "will take time to feed through", Boris Johnson says. The prime minister told a No 10 briefing the UK ...
Boris Johnson is facing anger from the right and left of the Conservative Party over his handling of coronavirus – this spells real trouble for the prime minister.
Renewed hostilities have been raging between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces around the contested territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in the southern Caucasus.
As fierce fighting continues between bitter rivals Azerbaijan and Armenia over a breakaway region, fears are growing of a regional war that could draw in Russia ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has situated himself as the main obstacle to a ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Erdogan is fueling the ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has pledged to investigate allegations that aid workers tackling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
GENEVA — The World Health Organization, already struggling to lead a global response to the coronavirus pandemic, has been hit with potentially damaging ...
France's environment minister has announced a gradual ban in the coming years on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses and on keeping dolphins and ...
The ruler of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, has died at the age of 91. Born in an era when the tiny Gulf emirate's economy relied on pearl diving, his ...
For decades, Kuwait has charted a neutral course in many of the Middle East's intractable conflicts. But the death of its longtime ruler leaves his successor with a ...
Kuwait on Wednesday laid to rest late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, a Gulf Arab elder statesman who helped steer his nation through some of the ...
NEW DELHI — A teenager from a north Indian village who was dragged from a field and raped by a group of men died of her injuries at a hospital in New Delhi ...
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A British wildlife sanctuary has been forced to separate five parrots who wouldn't stop swearing at visitors. Keepers say the birds encouraged each other to keep ...
The foul-mouthed birds were split up after they launched a number of different expletives at visitors and staff just days after being donated to Lincolnshire Wildlife ...
Five birds who moved to a park in Britain the same week had unprintable vocabularies, which they deployed on amused guests. Keepers said the parrots also ...
Israel has passed a law that bans mass protest during the country's coronavirus lockdown in a move government opponents have claimed exploits the health ...
In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday showed pictures of what he claims is a secret ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that President Trump's critics were “dead wrong,” in predicting that the Trump administration's attempts ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's House of Commons approved legislation on Tuesday that gives ministers the power to break its divorce deal with the European ...
British intelligence on terrorists and serious criminals would be deleted from EU databases in the event of a no-deal Brexit, a former EU security commissioner ...
The nominee for the European Union's top financial oversight job warned the U.K. to expect “consequences” after Brexit if London decides to split with the bloc ...
If it weren't for Covid-19, the chances of an EU-U.K. trade deal would be slim to none. But will the British public accept any pain from Brexit right now? By.
Washington — A conservative law firm in Wisconsin has asked a state court to block enforcement of Governor Tony Evers' mandate that all in the state wear ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has praised women in Belarus for staging peaceful protests in the wake of the country's disputed presidential election.
Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Germany will return to normal spending levels as soon as possible as she defended the country's unprecedented borrowing to ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will restrict the size of gatherings and fine people who flout tracking rules in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus over ...
ROME (AP) — Cardinal George Pell, who left the Vatican in 2017 to face child sexual abuse charges in Australia, returned to Rome on Wednesday to find a Holy ...
As the Vatican reveales it will renew an agreement with China that effectively lets this tyranny choose its own bishops, it has only made the dictatorship stronger ...
VATICAN CITY — Just days after the resignation of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciù, Cardinal George Pell returns to Rome tomorrow afternoon and is expected ...
PARIS — A loud boom startled the city of Paris and its suburbs on Wednesday, halting pedestrians in their tracks, interrupting tennis players at the French Open, ...
The sonic boom of a fighter jet breaking the sound barrier reverberated through the French capital Paris and nearby suburbs on Wednesday, the Paris police ...
PARIS (Reuters) - A French fighter jet broke the sound barrier on Wednesday as it scrambled to join a commercial jet that had lost contact with air traffic control, ...
The Navy ship, the Hershel “Woody” Williams, will be deployed to a joint U.S.-Greek base, a move that could serve as a mark of America's growing irritation with ...
While Europe is struggling to respond to Turkey's flexing of military muscle, European Union leaders plan to stress diplomacy over antagonism at a summit on ...
Thirty-two people including top BJP leaders LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti have been acquitted of conspiracy charges in a landmark verdict ...
Expressing outrage over the verdict of a special CBI court that acquitted all 32 accused, including BJP veteran L K Advani, in the Babri mosque demolition case, ...
The demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, was not planned and involved "anti-social elements" who got agitated and climbed the ...
The Shiv Sena today welcomed the verdict in the Babri Masjid demolition case, where all the accused were acquitted and the special court in Lucknow said ...
Democracy is suffering in several European nations, including Hungary and Poland, according to a European Commission audit on the rule of law published ...
The European Union executive on Tuesday snubbed a demand by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that it dismiss its top rule of law official for comments ...
A polarizing battle inside the European Union to tie funding to the rule-of-law got personal after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban demanded the official ...
(Fixes typos in para 17). CHILLING, India, Sept 29(Reuters) - Ligen Eliyas deftly turns the excavator's hydraulic arm to push a huge boulder into the Zanskar river ...
Chinese state media has continued its attacks on its rivals over their handling of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, predicting that continued failure to deal ...
China says India's designation of the region along their disputed border as a federal territory is an illegal move, and criticized infrastructure construction that ...
Autocrat Alexander Lukashenko's tech revolution has backfired with Belarus' golden generation of coders and software engineers leading the fight to force him ...
Amnesty International announced Tuesday it would close its operations in India after its bank accounts were frozen and its executives were interrogated ...
New Delhi — Global human rights organization Amnesty International has halted operations in India, accusing the government of an "incessant witch-hunt" and ...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir — The human rights organization Amnesty International said on Tuesday that it had ceased its operations in India and laid off its entire staff ...
Citing a "reprisal" by the Indian government against its human rights work, Amnesty International said Tuesday that it had to lay off staff and halt operations in ...
MOSCOW -- A Russian court has sentenced a historian who helped uncover Stalin-era mass graves to 13 years in prison, abruptly increasing his sentence by ...
Court overturns earlier sentence on charges that his supporters say were fabricated to punish him for his work. Reuters in Moscow. Tue 29 Sep 2020 15.57 EDT ...
A Russian court abruptly handed Yuri Dmitriev, a historian of Stalin-era crimes, a 13-year jail term on Tuesday after overturning an earlier sentence on charges ...
A regional appeals court has intervened to add ten years to a jail term currently being served by an outspoken historian of Stalinist crimes — thereby blocking his ...
NEW DELHI — It was one of the most divisive moments in modern Indian history: The illegal razing of a 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya in 1992 by a mob of ...
A court in India has acquitted all the suspects, including several high-profile politicians from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, who were accused of ...
One person who went to a house party is believed to have caused an outbreak of coronavirus at a university. The person went to the party on 12 September, ...
Some colleges are taking drastic steps to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus, pressing pause to salvage the rest of their fall term for face-to-face instruction ...
Canada is seeing a sharp rise in cases of Covid-19, alarming health officials and triggering a second round of lockdowns and strict distancing recommendations.
After a surge in coronavirus cases, Montreal will enter a partial shutdown for almost a month, officials said Monday. Three regions in the Canadian province of ...
Canada's federal authorities and its two biggest provinces on Tuesday promised new measures to combat a second COVID-19 wave that is notching up as many ...
The United Kingdom recorded 7,143 new cases and 71 new deaths from coronavirus Tuesday, the most deaths since July 1. That brings the U.K.'s total to ...
The Covid-19 pandemic began last year in a city in central China, but has since grown to affect nearly every country on earth. The virus has put world leaders in ...
Now, 8-1/2 months after an infection doctors had never seen before claimed its first victims in China, the pandemic's confirmed death toll has eclipsed 1 million.
The coronavirus pandemic has upended life around the world. What started as a mysterious pneumonia-like illness in Wuhan, China, has spread to nearly every ...
The global death toll from the coronavirus has surpassed one million, less than eight months after the first COVID-19-related death was reported in China.
Nine in ten coronavirus patients reported experiencing side-effects such as fatigue, psychological after-effects and loss of smell and taste after they recovered ...
South Korea has reported 113 new cases of COVID-19, its first daily increase over 100 in five days, as the country entered a holiday break that officials fear ...
Some South Koreans are thrilled about officials' advice to skip visiting relatives this year for Chuseok, a holiday that can feel 'more difficult than work.'
PARIS — The man suspected of stabbing two people outside the former Paris office of Charlie Hebdo last week admitted to investigators that he wanted to set ...
SEOUL — The brother of the South Korean fisheries official killed by North Korean soldiers at sea last week rejected the government's claim on Tuesday that the ...
South Korea said Tuesday that a government official slain by North Korean sailors wanted to defect, concluding that the man, who had gambling debts, swam ...
North Korea has warned the South not to enter its territorial waters as troops search for the remains of an official who was killed in Northern waters last week.
The Colombia woman who was rescued at sea by fishermen has a history of mental health issues that may have contributed to the bizarre saga in which she ...
In a survival saga for the ages, a Colombian woman who had fallen off the grid two years ago was miraculously discovered alive at sea by flabbergasted ...
A woman declared missing by her family two years ago was rescued after being spotted floating in the sea off the northern coast of Colombia last week. Angélica ...
British opposition lawmakers expressed dismay Wednesday over reports that Home Secretary Priti Patel had floated plans to send asylum seekers to a remote ...
The government has considered building an asylum processing centre on a remote UK territory in the Atlantic Ocean. The idea of "offshoring" people is being ...
he home secretary has fallen victim to the affliction of anti-immigration politicians through the ages: Why can't we send asylum seekers far away while we decide ...
Less than a week after Tory home secretary Priti Patel was caught slandering the Traveller community as “criminal and violent” another rank example of her ...
New Delhi (CNN) More than 63 million people in India may have contracted Covid-19, health authorities said on Tuesday -- about 10 times higher than the ...
In the bleak ranking of worst COVID-19 outbreaks, the United States, with 7.2 million infections, is likely to be eclipsed only by India, which has 1 million fewer ...
A staggering 63 million people in India may have been infected with the coronavirus, a new survey has found — a total that's 10 times higher than officially ...
Coronavirus cases in India could be as high as over 60 million—10 times higher than the current official count, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) ...
By Jack Guy | CNN. The world's first jet suit-wearing paramedic could be coming to the hilly terrain of the Lake District in the United Kingdom. Using the 1050 ...
In a scene straight out of 1965's “Thunderball,” inventor Richard Browning tested a jet suit that will allow Great North Air Ambulance *Service* medics to quickly ...
The United Arab Emirates ramped up deliveries of military supplies to Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar this year, according to a confidential United Nations report, ...
The Public Prosecution *Service* has stuck to its original decision to bring charges against no more than one soldier in relation to Bloody Sunday. It followed a ...
Prosecutors in the British region of Northern Ireland on Tuesday upheld a decision not to prosecute 15 soldiers for their role in the killing of 13 unarmed Catholic ...
Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution *Service* reviewed the cases of 15 veterans who families of the victims believe may have been involved. Thirteen people ...
Detained by the Chinese Coast Guard as they tried to flee the city, the activists are now in the hands of the mainland's opaque criminal justice system.
(This September 29 story corrects spelling of the module home project name to Nam Cheong in 15th and 21st paragraphs). HONG KONG (Reuters) - When Lau ...
Boxes that had contained live rabbits, guinea pigs, cats and dogs without food or water are seen at the Dongxing Logistics station in Luohe city, in China's ...
A kindergarten teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children in an act of revenge against a colleague that left one toddler ...
A Chinese teacher has been sentenced to death after a court found that she poisoned more than two-dozen kindergartners, killing one, to wage revenge on a ...
The fatal poisoning happened in March of 2019. By Chris Harris. September 29, 2020 01:26 PM. Advertisement. FB Tweet More. Pinterest Email Send Text ...
